Friday, April 17, 2009

That's the type of explanation that comes up when I try to research some of these children's conditions. I'm left going "Hmmm....... O.Kay. So, necrosis means tissue death, and, hmm... malignant means cancer.... vascular--blood vessels, right? and hyper means extra....What the heck's 'glial pleomorphism'?? I don't know--shoot. Lord, take it out of there, whatever it is." After googling the eighth or tenth word in that sentence, I forget which condition and whose it was that I was looking up.

By the way, we decided to leave in the morning, so I have time to upload a few photos I took of Promise & Keren's scans, so that some of you who actually understand what you're seeing can tell me (in simpler words than the above, please) what's happening with the girls and what they need.

4 comments:

Ugh girlie....The Glioblastoma is in fact one of the most common and also the most aggressive/most mailignant of the glial brain tumors....I have followed several little kiddos at St. Jude with this type of tumor....I pray they are wrong..

I hope you were only using that definition as an example. My dear Mom had glioblastoma multiformae and lived 1 month and 1 day after her diagnosis.I know what you mean about medical terms - diaphoretic means cold and clammy, nuchal rigidity is a stiff neck..My husband was ill for several months in the hospital and I tried to read his records until someone said I shouod not have access to them. But it was a slog for a non medical person.

Sorry if I scared anybody. None of our children have glioblastomas. It was just a sentence I came across while looking up the term "temporal horn". One of our kids has one temporal horn larger than the other--was trying to see if that was significant.

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